Forge wrote:ATI card.... LGA775..... LCD on DB15. Three strikes, you are teh l0se.

Seriously, though, how hot/loud does that thing get?

LOL Sorry. I'm the kind of person what upgrades every six months or so and I like to try out different hardware. I wanted to mess around with LGA775 chips and see some of ATI's newer solutions (I've been a Nvidia guy for a while). Oh and I got the Dell for $250 when it was on sale so I jumped on it. I know DVI is better but at the time it was the cheapest 17" LCD I could find. I am sure I will upgrade in the future to a DVI monitor.

Perhaps when the SN95G5 comes down in price I will upgrade, but for now I am very happy with this solution. I also never had a HyperThreading processor before, so I wanted to try it out!

To answer your question yes, it is very quiet. Suprisingly so. The Smart Fan keeps the ICE fan at 950 RPM, and it only speeds up when the chip goes above 60C, which it never has. Even under 100% load after an hour of gaming it hovers around 58C. Idles at 45C. The loudest component is the X700 Pro fan, but I use Riva Tuner to keep it down around 50% speed.

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I'd done that on all my XPC's, and will most likely be doing it on this one as well shortly! Before the one emkubed bought from me, I drilled a blow hole in my SB51G and put a Red LED in there! I took the pics offline a while back but it looked awesome!

LicketySplit wrote:Great lookin job...you either must have too much money to blow...or at the other end of the scale...no inbetween I may even outbid emkubed when its time

Money? Nah, this mod cost $25 bucks at the most. All it takes is accurate measurements and a steady hand. Like I said, this one did not as perfectly as I would have liked, but ended up looking real good. Just a little touch up and a small extension to a hole I had to drill for the fan to fit.

If you mean it would have cost me a lot if I screwed it up well yeah, I'd have to buy another PF16 from the Shuttle store on eBay, about $60 bucks.

I got the grill, fan, C-Strip, and rubber grommets from FrozenCPU.com.

I also modded two previous Shuttles I've owned. The SB51GB, and the SN85G4 that emkubed got from me.

I'm too lazy to dig up the link to the message where I posted the details, but the easy way to put a blowhole into a case is this:

Mark the locations of the four fan mounting holes. Center-punch them (to keep your drill bit from wandering). Drill the four mounting holes. Using a straight edge, draw an "X" connecting the diagonal pairs of holes. Center punch the intersection. Using an appropriately sized hole saw, drill through. Clean up the sharp edges of the hole with a round file or a rotary tool with a grinding cone attachment. Attach fan and wire grill using regular self-tapping fan mounting screws. You can mount the fan grill from inside or outide the case for a couple of different looks. The inside mounting option leaves the screw heads flush with the outside of the case and the fan grill just slightly protruding through the hole.

I put a nice 92mm side fan on my Antec SX1030B. Of course, I did spend $15 on a hole saw specifically of that size.

JustAnEngineer wrote:I'm too lazy to dig up the link to the message where I posted the details, but the easy way to put a blowhole into a case is this:

Mark the locations of the four fan mounting holes. Center-punch them (to keep your drill bit from wandering). Drill the four mounting holes. Using a straight edge, draw an "X" connecting the diagonal pairs of holes. Center punch the intersection. Using an appropriately sized hole saw, drill through. Clean up the sharp edges of the hole with a round file or a rotary tool with a grinding cone attachment. Attach fan and wire grill using regular self-tapping fan mounting screws. You can mount the fan grill from inside or outide the case for a couple of different looks. The inside mounting option leaves the screw heads flush with the outside of the case and the fan grill just slightly protruding through the hole.

I put a nice 92mm side fan on my Antec SX1030B. Of course, I did spend $15 on a hole saw specifically of that size.

Yup, that basically what I do. I got a 3" Hole Saw that is perfect for 80MM fans.